Welcome to Friendly Friday, the weekly celebration hosted by Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier, Christi at Frugal Novice and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! It's a great way to get new followers to your blog, say hello to your blog friends, and make new ones! To join in the Friendly Friday celebration,go to any of the three blogs listed above , follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect - this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted. When people comment on your blog and let you know they're a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it's a … [Read more...]
Kaitlyn Breaking Styrofoam Sheets Over Her Knee
Every couple of weeks we take the styrofoam that comes in products I get for review and go to Dart Container to recycle them. Conveniently, Dart is located just a few blocks from the house where Chris' carpool coworker lives. The last time we went, Nathan used his Tae Kwon Do skills to break some of the styrofoam sheets over his knee. Then, this past Saturday we loaded up the van for another trip to Dart, and Ryan came running in to tell me to grab the camera because Kaitlyn was breaking styrofoam sheets over HER knee. Well, that sounded like blogging gold right there, so out with the camera I went. Take a look! … [Read more...]
The Right Words Don’t Belong Here
I wish I could put what is in my head into words. I wish I could unburden myself, pour it all out of myself in a thick stream, and have something that makes any kind of sense come out. This blog was started as a personal diary, but back then, there was no Twitter or Facebook. I didn't know about Google, about each individual post being it's own search result. I didn't know how not private a blog is. Unless I were to password-protect this blog, there's no way to make what I write here private. There's no way I can use this space as a place to write about what's really happening in my life, because it's not really personal anymore. Table for Five is a brand, an entity with a life of it's own. But all I want to do right now is write, unburden, purge. The problem with blogging as a job is that any other kind of blogging besides the kind that furthers business goals feels like cheating. I need 5 or 6 hours a day MINIMUM to make even a small dent in my email and update my three … [Read more...]
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